Mastodawn

Note, FYI¹:

The Queensland Criminal Code Act 1899 as amended spells out the exact phrases that are not permitted.

Section 52DA(6)(a) and (b).

This is, IMO, a mistake, as the Act does NOT state that similar phrases or phrases of equivalent meaning are also prohibited.

The Act does this for symbols, which it leaves to regulations to describe, but not for words. Section 52C(1)(c).

This means one could, carefully, change the phrases used (as in some of the examples shown in the images) without attracting the threatened penalties.

I have a suspicion² that, because the Act ONLY specifies the exact English-language wording and doesn't refer to other languages, one could simply write/speak the phrases in another, perhaps uncommon, language; probably not Hebrew though.

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1: I'm not a lawyer; just a very interested amateur.
2: I'M NOT A LAWYER!

The legislation: https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/inforce/current/act-1899-009.pdf

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James Cridland 1d ago

Regarding the Queensland “from the river to the sea” ban… it’s section 52DA of the Criminal Code, here:

https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-1899-009

It starts by saying: “A person who publicly recites, publicly distributes, publishes or publicly displays a prohibited expression in a way that might reasonably be expected to cause a member of the public to feel menaced, harassed or offended commits an offence” - and then goes on to define the phrase “from the river to the sea”.

Surely, singing John Farnham is not “a way that might reasonably be expected to cause a member of the public to feel menaced, harassed or offended” - and thus any media reports of people “narrowly escaping arrest” are lazy reporting?

(Even, surely, if you sing the song while holding a Palestinian flag?)

Or am I missing something crucial about this particularly dumb law from Crissafuli?

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